Don’t have time to read but want to? Free audiobooks to the rescue.

Posted on April 25, 2007
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Let’s face it. Many of use would like to read more but we simply don’t have the time. Take for example our morning and afternoon commute to work; I spend on average 2 hours driving in traffic (if you can call it driving) which is time I could invest in reading. So what can one man do? Audiobooks are the answer.

Portable mp3 players have revolutionized the way we listen to music and are now also revolutionizing the way we read books. Just like iTunes.com is your one stop for online music, there are several websites that will allow you to buy audiobooks, i.e., books read for you. Better yet, why not start by downloading some classic books that are in the public domain. LibriVox is a non-profit website run by volunteers who record public domain books and make them available in mp3 format so that you can listen to them using your iPod, Zune or any other portable mp3 player.

LibriVox’s library is large and growing continuously; currently, there are nearly 600 books completed. Some titles that you will find on their website include Frank L. Baum’s “Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz,” Aristotle’s “Poetics,” Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” and Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War.”

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